At the Mountains of Madness

ugly, hard and dangerous. Individuals who are willing to love in the midst of darkness are truly the real heros of the world. These heroes are able to keenly analyze the present and foresee the future. They are able to see the beauty behind the madness. One such hero is a remarkable young women who in spite of dire and unfair circumstances has been able to continuously find the beauty in a place that some individuals describe as one of the darkest places in the world; Pakistan. The Islamic…

Many will speak of Edgar Allen Poe, and call him a madman, a necromaniac, and that he had to have been suffering from some sort of mental illness to write the things that he did. In actuality, Poe was an author who crafted beautiful, thought provoking stories about the simple reality of life and death. This can be proven true through several of Poe’s works, including “The Black Cat”, “The Premature Burial”, and several others. Edgar Allen Poe did have an obsession with death, but he shared this…

Kayla Hardersen Partyka English, 7 20 August 2015 Reading Journal Chapters 1-2 Character Evaluation In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Piggy is a self-conscious, proper schoolboy; however, he is having trouble adjusting to the island and the boys on it. Piggy wants to be heard and respected by the boys on the island, but his overweight appearance and unfortunate nickname make it difficult for the boys to take him seriously. Despite being a well-mannered boy, Piggy has outbursts of anger…

Deep down in every human being there is one primal instinct hidden away, awaiting the time when it will be unleashed. In William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies, a group of English schoolboys deserted on an island struggle with the threat of death by their surroundings and most importantly each other. Faced with ultimate death the young boys struggle with the aspects of survival. Adapting England's democracy, the boys elect Ralph; an attractive and intelligent young man to lead the group.…

It can be seen from the book Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, that running away from one's problems serves them no good. It can cause more problems that could have otherwise been avoided had it been dealt with from the very beginning. It is never too late to fix a problem, but some of the consequences of not having fixed it earlier are irreversible. Therefore, one should never wait to fix a mistake. Throughout Mary Shelley's book, Frankenstein, a recurring theme that can be seen is that…

Think of an urge that is almost uncontrollable to ignore. This is what the citizens of Strasbourg began to feel in July of the year 1518. All along the streets, and anywhere that could be seen, the people of the city were involved in an uncontrollable dance. Only heart attacks and strokes would result in the ending of the dance. While this may sound unbelievable, or unintelligent, the victims could not help their ill-decided fate. When the first woman, known as Frau Troffea, began to dance,…

everything we can think for us. The pathos appeals in this speech really bring out how bad Dr. Martin Luther King wanted equality across the nation and how far he would go to overcome segregation and discrimination. Through all the marching and the madness that was going on during this time Dr. King made up in his mind that he was not going to stop until he got equality. Having that support system behind him also made this emotional too, to just see that not only did he have black people be he…

What makes a true American tale? Is it the writer? The way he or she speaks to the reader? Is it the way the main characters are portrayed and brought to life in the pages of its tale? In the early 1900s, many have asked this question and many have set out to answer it. Eugene O’Neil, a curious mind, was an American writer and playwright who decided to express how he saw the world in his own perspective. Eventually, a drama was born that marked history, thus making itself known in American…

leads to the impression that Calderon had written a proto-feminist character, despite his strong absolutist and catholic views. After all, in the original play, when Rosaura bursts onto the stage, dressed like a man, swearing and climbing down a mountain side, she is signalling to the audience that this is a female character breaking down all the restrictions placed on her gender in 17th Century Spain. Are we meant to infer from this that Calderon believed in some…

the child is referred to “it”, emphasizing the child’s status as an object instead of a being with rights. For some, they don’t approve of imprisoning the child, so they walk away from Omelas forever: “Each alone they go west or north, towards the mountains…They leave Omelas…and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness” (Le Guin 7). Although they refuse to remain silent and ignorant, they must spend the rest of…